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He started 25th in the lineup and completed all laps of the 300 laps run. Reddick, who entered all seven NXS races so far this season, is currently third in the 2018 NXS driver championship point standings after this event, 14 points behind leader Elliott Sadler.

California native Zane Smith has been tabbed to drive eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races for JR Motorsports in 2019.

Smith, a member of the NASCAR Next Program, will take the wheel of the organization’s No. 9 entry in his series debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in partnership with The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for the event. The 19-year-old Smith is the first driver to be named to the lineup of JRM’s No. 9 team, which is coming off its second consecutive NXS championship (2017-18). The team intends to run a full-time schedule next season with a number of drivers at the helm.-JRM

Just because Thomas "Moose" Praytor and his Mobile, Alabama race team took a break from the second half of the 2018 ARCA Schedule doesn’t mean Praytor hasn’t been busy.

Praytor’s newly formed Max Force Trucking hauled its first load out of the Port of Mobile last week. "One of our biggest challenges over the last few months was moving the race team to its new shop. Over the last 20 plus years our team has always operated out of space that was something else and we made it work for us. Our new space is ultra modern and has required a tremendous amount of build out."

StarCom Racing enhances its program in a major way for the 2019 season by purchasing a Charter from Richard Childress Racing.

Landon Cassill has signed on as driver for the 2019 season. SCR has found a new 20,000 sq. ft. home for its race shop in Salisbury, NC., where the team has been actively preparing its quality equipment to be ready to hit the track at Daytona. In addition, SCR accelerated its engine program with ECR Engines and will be bringing upgraded horsepower to Cassill's 00 Chevy each-and-every week.-ESPN

NASCAR has approved John Hunter Nemechek and Chase Briscoe to compete for the Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year title in 2019, NBC Sports has confirmed.

Nemechek made 18 Xfinity starts in 2018 with Chip Ganassi Racing while Briscoe made 17 with Stewart-Haas Racing and Roush Fenway Racing. Nemechek will compete for GMS Racing in the No. 23 Chevrolet. Briscoe will drive the No. 98 Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing. The Xfinity rookie field next year will include Nemechek, Briscoe, Noah Gragson in JR Motorsports’ No. 1 Chevrolet and Justin Haley in Kaulig Racing’s No. 11 Chevrolet.-NBC Sports

DGR-Crosley announced today that Tyler Ankrum will drive the team’s No. 17 Toyota Tundra next season in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series. Due to age restrictions, Ankrum will miss the first three races of the season before turning 18 on March 6.

He will make his 2019 debut at Martinsville Speedway and is slated to run the remainder of the season as a contender for Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors. The 17-year-old San Bernardino, California, native made his Truck Series debut earlier this year with DGR-Crosley at Martinsville where he earned an 18th-place finish.

Preparing for its 16th season of IMSA competition, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) will have a two-car campaign in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the GT-Daytona class with the Acura NSX GT3 Evo.

Trent Hindman and Mario Farnbacher will pair for the full season effort in the No. 86 MSR Acura NSX GT3 Evo, with Justin Marks slotted for the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds along with the return of AJ Allmendinger for the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The No. 86 entry will be joined by MSR's all-female line up of Jackie Heinricher, Katherine Legge, Bia Figueiredo (Ana Beatriz) and Simona De Silvestro for the Rolex 24 in the No. 57 Acura NSX GT3 Evo.-ESPN

The Air Force and Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) announced today they will continue their 11th consecutive year of partnership together in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2019.

The Air Force will continue to be a two-race primary sponsor of the famed No. 43 with driver Bubba Wallace, as well as a major associate throughout the season. In his first year partnering with the Air Force, Wallace Jr. engaged with current Airmen and aspiring recruits and visited four different U.S. Air Force bases. He took flight in an F-16 with the 77th Fighter Squadron known as the "Gamblers" at Shaw AFB, SC.-RPM

Kannapolis, North Carolina native Daniel Hemric will carry a familiar number for his rookie season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2019, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. He continues the long tradition of Kannapolis natives who have driven the No. 8 on the racetrack.

Hemric made his MENCS debut during the 2018 season running the No. 8 at Richmond. During the 1950s, Ralph Earnhardt began his family's racing legacy on the short tracks around North Carolina driving the No. 8. When his son, Dale Earnhardt, made his first NASCAR start at Charlotte in 1975, it was with the No. 8 on the side of the car. When it came time for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to begin his career in the NASCAR Cup Series, he did so driving a No. 8 Chevrolet that would become iconic to NASCAR fans and non-fans alike.-Richard Childress Racing

FOX Sports officials confirmed Wednesday that Jamie McMurray has joined its NASCAR broadcast team as an analyst for the 2019 season.

McMurray, 42, will make the transition to the studio for the network’s "NASCAR RaceDay" pre-race coverage and the "NASCAR Race Hub" midweek news show. McMurray was replaced Dec. 4 as the driver of the Chip Ganassi Racing No. 1 Chevrolet. He has seven victories in 16-plus seasons competing in NASCAR’s top division, including a win in the 2010 Daytona 500.

RFMS Racing driver Travis Braden is on the ESPN 'Ten to Watch' list for 2019 after he achieved four top five finishes in his first full ARCA Racing Series this season.

At tracks in Columbus and Xenia, Ohio, Travis secured more than 100 victories before he was 13, and at age 17 he notched 10 victories and was crowned the Columbus track champion, the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series State Champion and the NWASS National Rookie of the Year – all before graduating from high school.

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